Peter Gumbel

Peter Gumbel is an award winning journalist and author who has lived in Paris since 2002. He spent 16 years at The Wall Street Journal in a number of international assignments including Moscow and Berlin, and has also worked as a senior writer for TIME and Europe Editor for Fortune Magazine. His latest book, on France's oppressive culture of elitism in France, France's Got Talent was published in May 2013.

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Another day in Europe, another Chinese acquisition: over the first June weekend it was the turn of three prestigious Bordeaux wine châteaus, Bon Pasteur, Rolland-Mallet and Bertineau St.-Vincent, to be acquired by the Hong Kong–based Goldin Group for an undisclosed amount.

Cyprus is paying a high price for the $13 billion financial rescue it obtained from the E.U.: the destruction of a key pillar of its economy, its status as the offshore tax haven of choice for wealthy Russians

The ultimatum has been issued: the E.U. is pressuring Cyprus to end its standoff over a proposed financial-rescue package and agree to new terms very rapidly — or face bankruptcy. Cyprus is scrambling to respond with a …

The Cyprus government is scrambling to find alternative ways to fund its part of an E.U. bailout, including asking for help in Moscow, after the island’s parliament resoundingly rejected the terms initially agreed. The …

With its $13 billion agreement to bail out Cyprus, the E.U. this weekend thought that it had successfully doused the latest threat to its single currency, the euro. Cyprus has run into trouble because its banks are heavily …